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dinosay is a humble, simple, nice and paleolithic alternative tocowsay.
The idea came from my two children.To make them learn the syllables and then how to assemble them to form words,I used cowsay on my terminal, so that they learned while having fun.One day, they asked me: "Dad, isn't there a way to make a dinosaur talk too?" (both are dinosaur fans, like me).So I usedcowsay -f ~/dinosaur.cow, but I made a very simple one.The next day, I thought about how to reproduce it in python (my primary programming language) and opened this project.
dinosay is an alternative and not a replacement. The library is not meant to be cowsay's rewrite.If you are looking for this then you need to go topycowsay.
dinosay implements most of the functionality of cowsay, adding freedom in the individual elements.For example, you can add thetongue element or replace the eyes by specifying theeye parameter.If you have suggestions or new implementations, or you are an ASCII designer and would like your template to be addedto the dinosaur library, open anissue using thedinosay-enhancement issue template,attaching your creation if possible. Below you will find instructions for building your template.
Unlike its cousin cowsay,dinosay is written in python.
dinosay can be used on the command line or as a python module, to give a dinosaur touch!
For install package, see below:
$pip install dinosay# for python enviroment$dnf coprenable matteoguadrini/dinosay$dnf install python-dinosay -y# for Red Hat, CentOS, Mageia and fedora$wget https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/dinosay/releases/download/<version>/dinosay-<version>-1.noarch.rpm -O dinosay.rpm$yast -i dinosay.rpm# for SLES and OpenSUSE$apt-get install alien# for debian based and ubuntu based, see here$alien -i dinosay.rpm$git clone https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/dinosay.git&&cd dinosay$python setup.py install# for other
From the command line,dinosay looks like this:
$dinosay --helpusage: dinosay [-h] [--version] (-d DINOSAUR | -r | -f FILE | -l) [-c COLOR] [-b BEHAVIOR] [-i] [-t] [-e EYE] [-w WRAP] [message]print messages via ASCII dinosaurspositional arguments: message message to printoptional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --version, -v show program's version number and exit -d DINOSAUR, --dinosaur DINOSAUR dinosaur to print -r, --random random dinosaur to print -f FILE, --file FILE file containing ASCII to print -l, --list list of all dinosaurs and parts -c COLOR, --color COLOR color dinosaur -b BEHAVIOR, --behavior BEHAVIOR behavior of dinosaur -i, --idea idea's speech bubble -t, --tongue shape of the tongue -e EYE, --eye EYE shape of the eye -w WRAP, --wrap WRAP length of the message _____ __ __ __ ______ ______ ______ __ __/\ __-. /\ \ /\ "-.\ \ /\ __ \ /\ ___\ /\ __ \ /\ \_\ \\ \ \/\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \-. \ \ \ \/\ \ \ \___ \ \ \ __ \ \ \____ \ \ \____- \ \_\ \ \_\\"\_\ \ \_____\ \/\_____\ \ \_\ \_\ \/\_____\ \/____/ \/_/ \/_/ \/_/ \/_____/ \/_____/ \/_/\/_/ \/_____/$dinolistDINOSAY list elements and dinosaurs===================================DINOSAURS - ALIAS: BEHAVIOR: EYE: COLORS:- tyrannosaurus - trex - normal - classic: O O - purple- dimetrodon - dim - happy - borg: = = - cyan- ankylosaur - anky - joking - stoned: * * - darkcyan- hypsilophodon - hypsi - lazy - glass: 0-0 - blue- stegosaurus - stego - tired - hypno: @ @ - green- deinonychus - deino - nerd - rage: ° ° - yellow- pterodactyl - ptero - cyborg - ko: x x - red- archaeopteryx - archa - dead - happy: ^ ^ - default- maiasaur - maia - trance - closed: - -- pleisiosaur - plei - stoned- brachiosaur - brachio- corythosaur - cory- parasaurolophus - para- triceratops - trice
Instead, using it as a python module, we'll do it like this:
fromdinosayimportdinoprint,DINO_TYPEmsg="Hi, I'm dinosay!"dinoprint(msg,DINO_TYPE['tyrannosaurus'])
Or like this:
fromdinosayimportdinostring,DINO_ALIASmsg="Hi, I'm dinosay!"returndinostring(message,DINO_ALIAS['brachio'],'happy')
If you want to build a custom template to parse to cowsay'sfile parameter, then you should follow these guidelines.
The template will have to use ASCII characters, and can use some substitution variables.The variables are included in this table:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| $comic | Variable indicating the positioning of the message to be printed. IMPORTANT! if it is missing, the message will NOT be printed. |
| $eyes | Variable indicating the substitution characters of the eyes. The pattern must be the following:character-space-character. |
| $eye | Same as$eyes but only prints the first character, so it represents a single eye. |
| $tongue | Variable indicating language substitution characters. It can be single, or multiple, for example\_\. |
This is a simple template:
$cat<<EOF >> /tmp/trex.ascii $comic O_ / > - > ^\ / > ^ / ($eye) > ^ / / / / _____ | \\|// / __ \ _/ / / _/ / / | | / / / / _/ |___/ / _/ ------_/ / ==_| \____/ _/ / ______/ \ \ __/ |\ | \_ ____/ / \ _ \ \________/ |\ \----/_V \_ / \_______ V \__ / \ / V \ \ \ \______ \_ \ \__________\_ \ / / \_ | | _/ \ | / _/ \ | | / | | \ \__ | \__ /\____=\ /\_____=\EOF$dinosay -f /tmp/trex.ascii -e happy"I'm a crazy dinosaur"
dinosay is a open source project. Any contribute, It's welcome.
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Thanks to Mark Lutz for writing theLearning Python andProgramming Python books that make up my python foundation.
Thanks to Kenneth Reitz and Tanya Schlusser for writing theThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python books.
Thanks to Dane Hillard for writing thePractices of the Python Pro books.
Special thanks go to my wife, who understood the hours of absence for this development.Thanks to my children, for the daily inspiration they give me and to make me realize, that life must be simple.
Thanks Python!
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dinosay is a humble, simple, nice and paleolithic alternative to cowsay.